A/N: I really don't know if they had breakfast before this scene. You know what? STFU. Haha. That's my favorite thing to say in real life, but I say it like STAFOO. Er. Not that it matters.

Disclaimer: Fruits Basket belongs to Natsuki Takaya. The 100 drabbles idea belongs to fanfic100.

Breakfast

That one morning Kyo didn't eat Tohru's cooking hurt her a lot more than it should have.

She had cleaned the kitchen—it had taken almost all of the morning. Yuki was impressed. Tohru was glad he was. Honestly. When she cooked for the first time in the Sohma household, she was glad again to see Yuki sit down and eat her food. His compliments pleasantly surprised her.

But whom she really wanted to impress with the new and clean kitchen was Kyo. Who she really wanted to eat her food wasn't Yuki, but Kyo.

She loved the Cat. She'd be anything to be born in the Year of the Cat. His shunning her did nothing to make her happy. It shocked her. It hurt her. It scared her more than she ever let on. His snaps and biting comments burned themselves into her mind.

And she had barely known him two days.

Tohru wanted to impress him. She wanted to please him. The cheerful girl had put her heart and soul into that breakfast that one morning. She had no idea where Shigure had taken Kyo, but when he came back she wanted him to smile at her. She wanted him to praise her and eat and eat and eat until he slept.

She herself didn't really understand this need she felt deep inside of her. She wanted to please the Cat. Tohru wanted anything else but the Cat to hate her. Maybe cooking would do the trick.

But it hadn't changed a thing. He had come in yelling. Not a good start. Tohru had tried to pleasantly get him to eat the food. Maybe just hadn't noticed it yet. Maybe he was too busy with other things on his mind.

But his yell at her told her otherwise.

"I'm not hungry!"

Simple words. Easily comprehendible. But Tohru didn't like them. They hurt more than anything else he had said to her yet (which wasn't really much). He didn't want to be near here. He didn't want to see her, let alone sit at the same table as her! Oh no! Why had Tohru been so silly as to cook so hard? Yuki was happy. Shigure was happy. She shouldn't have cared so much.

Really. She shouldn't have.

It was just breakfast.